Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond

Ages and Abilities: The Stages of Childhood and their Social Recognition in Prehistoric Europe and Beyond

Author: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1789697697

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This volume explores social responses to stages of childhood from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are archaeologically recognizable.


Ages and Abilities

Ages and Abilities

Author: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

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Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

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This volume explores social responses to stages of childhood from the late Neolithic to Classical Antiquity in Central Europe and the Mediterranean. Comparing osteological and archaeological evidence, as well as integrating images and texts, authors consider whether childhood age classes are archaeologically recognizable.


Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices

Normative, Atypical or Deviant? Interpreting Prehistoric and Protohistoric Child Burial Practices

Author: Eileen Murphy

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2023-08-24

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 180327512X

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This volume explores the response of the living when dealing with the death of a child. Papers focus on juvenile burial practices in Europe and the Near East during recent prehistory and protohistory. The interpretation of normative, atypical or deviant is interrogated based on the context of the burials and the intentionality of the practice.


Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece

Apotropaia and Phylakteria: Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece

Author: Maria G. Spathi

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2024-05-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1803277505

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The belief in the existence of evil forces was part of ancient everyday life and a phenomenon deeply embedded in popular thought of the Greek world. Stemming from a conference held in Athens in June 2021, this volume addresses the apotropaia and phylakteria from different perspectives: via literary sources, archaeological material, and iconography.


The Anthropology of Childhood

The Anthropology of Childhood

Author: David F. Lancy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1108943950

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How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are families and communities structured around them? Now in its third edition, this deeply engaging book delves into these questions by reviewing and cataloging the findings of over 100 years of anthropological scholarship dealing with childhood and adolescence. It is organized developmentally, moving from infancy through to adolescence and early adulthood, and enriched with anecdotes from ethnography and the daily media, to paint a nuanced and credible picture of childhood in different cultures, past and present. This new edition has been expanded and updated with over 350 new sources, and introduces a number of new topics, including how children learn from the environment, middle childhood, and how culture is 'transmitted' between generations. It remains the essential book to read to understand what it means to be a child in our complex, ever-changing world.


Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture

Author: Travis W. Proctor

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0197581161

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"Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and "Gnostic" writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functiond as personfications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and "pagan" religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian "ecosystems," which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community"--


Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts

Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts

Author: Christy Cobb

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1793637857

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Sex, Violence, and Early Christian Texts examines instances of sexual violence within a diversity of early Christian texts carefully, ethically, and with an eye toward shining a light on the scourge of sexual violence that is so often manifest in both ancient and contemporary Christian communities.


The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

Author: Harry Fokkens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 1012

ISBN-13: 0199572860

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The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.